Monday, March 30, 2015

Max Lucado brings us another great read in his heavenly
novel, Miracle at the Higher Grounds Café,
which combines human dilemma with angelic warfare.

When Chelsea Chambers learns her NFL famous husband has
cheated on her, she decides she’s done and needs to take her two children and
find a new life. Since her mother had recently passed on and left her with the
responsibility of a cozy café in San Antonio, she decides this is a good place
to start.

Eager to revamp the Higher Grounds Café and draw customers
with her delicious cupcakes, she is quickly set back by more bad news: Her
mother had failed to keep up with the taxes leaving Chelsea with a humongous
debt to the IRS. And with the upbeat Cosmic Café in firm competition with its
free Internet and great coffee, Chelsea’s cupcakes just don’t cut it. She needs
something else. An attraction to draw clients, a lure, a miracle no less!

While Chelsea remains indifferent to God, her patrons
apparently are not. When an Internet system is installed in the Higher Grounds
Café, it brings free access to a mysterious God-blog with it. People are able
to log in and ask God one question. And He answers with precision and
understanding that defies explanation.

At the same time, a convivial, almost childlike character,
Manny, joins Chelsea’s team in the café. Manny proves himself to be a real
God-send in more ways than one.

With human dilemmas to boot and angelic warfare in the
background, Miracle at the Higher Grounds
Café flaunts Max Lucado’s incredible imagination coupled with a strong biblical
base.

Miracle at the Higher
Grounds Café is a sweet story (no pun intended)!

Monday, March 02, 2015

The Drop Box, released by Focus on the Family and showing in
various cinemas nationwide now through March 4th, is a stunning,
compelling true story about Pastor
Lee Jong-rak of South Korea who saves babies.

Together with his wife—and with
the help of other loving Christians—Pastor Jong-rak works tirelessly day and
night to take care of the abandoned babies that are dropped off in what is
called “The Baby box”—a drop box where birth-mothers can place their babies and
know they will be cared for and loved.

Jong-rak’s journey begun through
the birth of his own and his own handicapped son who, in essence, becomes the
icon and centerpiece of the entire story. Many of the babies who are dropped
off are handicapped in some way of other, whether Downs syndrome, physical
handicaps, or premature, they share complex issues. But those issues do not
hinder the outpouring of love and care Pastor Jong-rak and his team give them.
They quickly become members of a large family where love reigns.

Focus-on-the-Family partnered with
Kindred Image and Arbella Studios to bring us The Drop Box with the purpose of not only sharing a beautiful true
story, but of hopefully touching hearts to the core to choose life and to care
for children. The film highlights the
need for global orphan care, adoption, and post-adoption support.

The Drop Box also shines a light on the deep love
of God, the love that never forgets any child, the love that compels those who
are open to it to act radically so others may see the Light. Pastor Jong-rak is
such a person—one who acts with radical love no matter what it costs him.

See the trailer here at TheDropBoxFilm.com.
Look for the film in a local theater, and be sure to bring a large box of
Kleenex. You’ll need them. The film is not the best cinematic production—some
cartoon drawings interspersed in the documentary and a lot of sub-titles to
read—but the story is so powerful, so life-changing, you hardly notice.

About Me

Author, Freelance Writer & Speaker (www.JaneyDeMeo.com), Founder & Director of Orphans First (www.orphansfirst.org).
I'm British & speak fluent French & poco Italiano. I spent 22 years in France where my husband, Louis, and I planted several churches, a Theological Institute, a Christian Day School -- and where our kids were born--all by God's grace. I'm founding director of ORPHANS FIRST, a non-profit ministry helping needy children worldwide - www.orphansfirst.org
I'm also a freelance writer and author of several books including: "Heaven Help Me Raise These Children!" - Biblical Answers to Practical Parenting Issues. I am a Christian and a free-thinker (I think), a pastor's wife, mother, women's teacher...
My heart breaks every day for the suffering children (& animals) of the world. That's why I founded Orphans First.